Posted on 12/19/2014 5:08:12 AM PST by cotton1706
The final recount from November’s election had not even been finished when current House Speaker John Boehner blew the mandate.
Voters gave the Republican Party a majority in the House of Representatives they had not seen in 80 years. Voters kicked Democrats to the curb in the Senate as the GOP had a nine-vote swing.
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On Jan. 3, a new Congress begins and one of the first orders of business in the House of Representatives is to pick a new speaker. The conventional wisdom is Mr. Boehner will be re-elected speaker. That may well happen and if it does it will be a disaster for the Republican Party.
The conservative base of the party is pretty much in open revolt and without the base, the losses of 2006 and 2008 will seem mild compared to what is coming in 2016.
Mr. Boehner has repeatedly shown he is not the man to lead the House. He cannot build a Republican coalition. He cannot lead, and he will not fight.
Conservatives cannot simply oppose Mr. Boehner. That is not a plan. Some conservative groups are pushing Trey Gowdy of South Carolina as speaker. That makes a great headline but it isn’t going to happen. Mr. Gowdy has only been in the House since 2011 and has not built the kind of relationships necessary to lead. Many people regard him as a bomb thrower. Most conservatives consider that to be a complement. While it is, it is not necessarily a positive attribute for someone to be speaker who, by definition, must build coalitions within the party.
There is one conservative who has been in Congress long enough and who has a solidly conservative record.
That is Marsha Blackburn from Tennessee.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Do they not have spell check on their computers? Or do they ignore the little red line like they ignore the Tea Party?
Who's got the Captain Obvious pic?
TINVOWOOT
I don't know her, but I'm sure she has more balls than Boehner!
This is going to be interesting.
I have posted on numerous occasions that the FReeper desired outcome of some event was impossible simply because the raw political power required was not existent. The Democrats or the GOPe had the power.
This article says that Marsha Blackburn as the apparent leader of the conservative wing, the GOPc, can possibly use the power on behalf of the GOPc to wrest away the speakership .
This is the only article I recall mentioning anybody, much less Blackburn, as real opposition to Speaker Boehner.
Go Marsha!!
Now, now... spell checkers pass compliment and complement both.
It takes a person (or Microsoft Word) to use the correct word in context.
I think she’s an excellent choice. The anti-Pelosi, whom I’ve liked for some time, and I’m not from or in her home state.
I don’t know her, but I’m sure she has more balls than Boehner!
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I don’t know her either, but almost anybody (except Mitch McConnell) has more balls than Boehner. Just having balls isn’t enough - Marsha needs to be able to play ‘hard ball’ with Obama and the Dems .... they play dirty and go for the jugular so whoever gets the job needs to have a lot of courage (and not the “liquid” kind like the current ‘weeper’).
GOP ratings from https://www.conservativereview.com/
• Mike Lee A 100%
• Ted Cruz A 95%
• Mitch McConnell D 60%
• John Boehner F 43%
• Jeff Flake F 43%
• Thad Cochran F 39%
I agree. I’ve seen her on FNC quite a few times and she’s very articulate, poised and appears to be a conservative (e.g., I agree with what she’s said). She gets her points across in a controlled manner, without sounding like a screaming Banshee (like most Dim women). Might even help dilute the Dims “War on Women” (though they didn’t use it this past election much and when they did, it seemed to fizzle).
I would also be very happy with Rep Gohmert from Texas as Speaker. Love him!
Doesn’t the entire house vote on the Speaker? If so, Pelosi and Boehner and Blackburn would be on the ballot. It would be interesting to have Pelosi as speaker of a GOP-controlled House. My brain can’t get wrapped around that idea.
If the WashTimes is floating her name then she is already co-opted.
Notice how much effort they put into telling you how dumb you are for ever thinking Gowdy could do it. No, you silly middle class noob, this woman here is the champion we have chosen for you.
Their description of her is the same as the one they gave Boehner when he got the gavel.
The fix is in. I smell a rat.
FYI: Marsha was all in for Lamar! in his last primary against Constitutional Conservative Joe Carr. I am not sure how active she was, but she certainly endorsed the Old Plaid Shirt Rino.
That being said, Boehner must go.
Per ontheissues.org, Marsha Blackburn is a Hard-Core Conservative.
Marsha Blackburn would be a vast improvement over Boner.
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